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making official tests of cows owned by members of the association. 

 Up to 1908 but 120 cows and heifers had been admitted to 

 Advanced Registry. Since this period, however, a great increase 

 in testing has taken place, so that by 191 8 a total of 2799 cows 

 and heifers had made acceptable records. The essential features 

 of Advanced Registry testing of Ayrshires are as follows: the 

 tests are conducted under the supervision of a state agricultural 

 experiment station or agricultural college official. All tests are for 

 one year from time of freshening or until the cow comes dry from 



that freshening. There 

 are four cow classes : 

 two-year, three-year, 

 four-year, and five- 

 year or older. In the 

 two-year form : "If 

 her record begins the 

 day she is two years 

 old, or before that time, 

 she shall, to entitle her 

 to record, give not less 

 than 6000 pounds of 

 milk in three hundred 

 and sixty-five consecu- 

 tive days from the be- 

 ginning of the test, and 

 214.3 pounds of butter 

 fat, and for each day she is over two years old at ■ time of begin- 

 ning the test there shall be added 1.37 pounds of milk to the 

 6000 pounds and .06 pound of butter fat to the 214.3 pounds." 

 In the three-year form 6500 pounds of milk and 236 pounds of 

 fat are required, with 2.74 pounds milk and .12 pound fat added 

 for each day she is over three years old at time of beginning the 

 test. In the four-year form 7500 pounds of milk and 279 pounds 

 of fat are required, and in the mature form 8500 pounds of milk 

 and 322 pounds of fat. A bull, to be admitted to Advanced Reg- 

 istry, must be typical of the breed, score at least 80 points, and 

 have two daughters from different dams in the Advanced Registry ; 

 or he may be admitted without physical qualifications and scoring 



Fig. 182. Judy of Knockdon, a first-prize Ayrshire 



cow at the I-Iighland and Agricultural Society Show. 



Owned by Alexander Cross, Knockdon, Maybole, 



Scotland. From photograph by the author 



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